Chris, Trade you iMac G4's if I could! [Wish mine were still alive!] <grin>
JG On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > I also wonder whether the failure rate of devices with no (or few) moving > parts is very high. My wife's old iPhone3G is still kicking along after more > than three years and numerous drops although she is itching for the iPhone5 > when it comes out. Some stuff doesn't die out, it just gets obsolete. Like > my old PowerMac g4 which is soon to hit 10 years and just keeps on working. > Makes a nice host for time machine hard drives and keeps my basement office > toasty. > > CB > > > On 9/30/11 1:28 PM, Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire wrote: > > I definitely recommend it! My iMac G4 was repaired under it in 2007 when it > failed. Apple did a top-notch job and returned it to me jolly quick. in 2009 > it was destroyed by a dozen lightning strikes on my property; destroying the > power supply and logic board. Since it was then out of warranty, it now sits > atop my stand-up stand, as I have no where to store it. > > Since then, I bought a MacBook Pro with Leopard and bought AppleCare for > it. This year I sent it back as the warranty was about to expire; they > sending a box overnight via FedEx, and the replaced the optical drive … > CD/DVD ROM and SuperDrive, network card, Airport card, logic board, and > Airport card [did not know it was bad], and returned it to me overnight > via FedEx. I am on it now. Purchased another MacBook Pro on eBay [won the > bid] for $677.00 including shipping with a 500 GB HD [my original has a 160 > GB HD]. They even re-installed my third-party software back onto it! It now > works better than ever! I'm a real happy camper now! > > I also get AppleCare for my iPods! None have failed yet; but, it surely > is worth it just for the no-cost phone help! > > JG > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Applecare, like insurance, is hedging your bets. Could you handle having >> to come up with replacement cost if your gadget were to fail? Apple is >> betting that more often than not you'll never need AppleCare, or at least >> the issues will be few enough to cover their costs. For me, for my iPhone, I >> don't plan to do my usual 5-6 year life cycle so I didn't do Applecare. >> While I wouldn't want to pay out to buy another one it is something I could >> probably scrape the money together for. Not so much with a laptop. >> >> CB >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
